Question

An array holds the files accessed, and the archive files are split into smaller sizes in preparation for online backup. I am attempting to retrieve the exit code for each iteration through the loop of the split command. However, it is returning Exit Code 1, yet it says that the operation was successful. Why?

#!/bin/bash
declare -a SplitDirs
declare -a CFiles
CDIR=/mnt/Net_Pics/Working/Compressed/
SDIR=/mnt/Net_Pics/Working/Split/
Err=/mnt/Net_Pics/Working
SplitDirs=(`ls -l "$CDIR" --time-style="long-iso" | egrep '^d' | awk '{print $8}'`)
for dir in "${SplitDirs[@]}"
do
  if [ ! -d "$SDIR""$dir" ]; then
mkdir "$SDIR""$dir"
  else continue
  fi
CFiles=(`ls -l "$CDIR$dir" --time-style="long-iso" | awk '{print $8}'`)
  for f in "${CFiles[@]}"
  do
  if [ ! -e "$SDIR""$dir"/"$f" ]; then 
    split -d -a 4 -b 1992295 "$CDIR""$dir"/"$f" "$SDIR""$dir"/"$f" --verbose
    if [[ "$?" == 1 ]]
    then
      rm -rf "$SDIR""$dir" && echo "$SDIR""$dir" "Removed due to Error code" "$?""." "Testing Archives and Retrying..." 2>&1 | tee "$Err"/Split_Err.log
      7z t "$CDIR""$dir"/"$f" >> tee stdout.log 2>> "$Err"/"$dir"/7z_Err.log >&2
      mkdir "$SDIR""$dir" && split -d -a 4 -b 1992295 "$CDIR""$dir"/"$f" "$SDIR""$dir"/"$f" --verbose
       if [[ "$?" == 1 ]]
       then
          rm -rf "$SDIR""$dir" && echo "$SDIR""$dir" "Removed a second time due to Error code "$?". Skipping..." 2>&1 | tee "$Err"/Split_Err.log
          continue
       else
          echo "Split Success:" "$SDIR""$dir"/"$f" "ended with Exit status" "$?" && continue
       fi
    else
      echo "Split Success:" "$SDIR""$dir" "ended with Exit status" "$?" && continue
    fi 
  else
    echo "$SDIR""$dir"/"$f" "Exists... Skipping Operation" 2>&1 | tee "$Err"/"$dir"/Split_Err.log
    continue
  fi
  done

(The echo piping in a previous revision of the question was misplaced code, and thank you for pointing that out. The exit code remains the same, though. Overall,the script does what I want it to except for the exit code portion.)

Answer 1

Remove | echo $?. you are processing the return code of echo command(last command).